A few days ago my Facebook feed was flooded with the new Misty Copeland sports bra ad video. Between dancers, choreographers, and dance teachers, everyone was sharing the magic. So beautiful! Misty does it again! Those rooting for the ballerina specifically, because she’s fierce, black, gorgeous or all of the above, were especially excited. Others claimed that the question whether ballet was a sport or not was settled, and if anyone had any doubt whatsoever, they should just watch this one-minute video and learn the all-knowing truth. So I watched the video. I saw a wonderful ballerina whose dancing I enjoy twirl around and jump high in order to sell a sports bra. I think. She could be selling something else, by a company that makes sporty things. Misty looked wonderful! Loved watching those lines, those long legs and extensions that go on for days. Her body is obviously perfectly shaped in every way, duh, or she wouldn’t exactly be a soloist for the American Ballet Theatre. I enjoyed the video. I thought good for her, that’s a nice paycheck! Still, echoing in my head was the idea that some people really truly thought these were the sixty seconds to proclaim ballet as a sport. If you were one of those people and you are now reading this, please do not take offense. Read on. It had been only a few days since I’d read a blog entry by a fellow dancer, a college student. Its title was something like “Ballet, an Art, not a Sport” or something equally unambiguous. I thought the blog entry interesting, and moved on with my life. The echo lingered still, why are dancers so confused? Why are we so terribly confused as to what to call ourselves, where we fit in, what labels to put on ourselves so that the world may see us this way or that other way? I gave it some thought, and realized that the true elephant in the room is validation. Dance, the thing no one really knows about. Dance, the performing art (TBD) people may come to see, but leave unsatisfied and unable to talk about because they don’t really understand or at best lack the vocabulary to put their experience into words. Dance, the thrashing of bodies and collision of shapes that somehow got on TV - yes, television, the magic box - about a decade ago. Once it did get there, ‘Merica took a liking to it. Now in people’s living rooms, dance had become that dazzling combination of tricks that excite folks sitting on couches. Dance, the after-school activity you take your daughter to (your female, little girl daughter) so she can learn to socialize and maybe gain some discipline and some other benefits you learned about in a magazine you read at the dentist’s office. Dance. The thing with pointe shoes and tutus, whether you know how to spell said items or not. Dance, the thing those leggy girls do in New York every Christmas. Dance, the addition to musicals to accompany all the beautiful singing and important acting. Dance, that thing you did in the 80s to stay in shape. Sort of. In the artistic hubs of major cities like New York and Los Angeles, or from isolated creators in completely absurdly remote places like Boise, Idaho or Wuppertal, Germany, decades (if not centuries) of a certain frustration of some kind is ever-present. Dancers, ever unimportant, are always paid less and last. If anyone has to work for free, dancers will. Dance shows cost a fortune to produce, and profits are nonexistent even for major companies. Choreographers scrape here and there and everywhere, making a buck or two, and creating art any way they can. There are exceptions, of course. The New York City Ballet has in the Koch Theater a sumptuous home, one they can afford. The Trey McIntyre Project toured for eight years and could have gone on for another thirty, if its founder had wanted that. The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will not see a dearth of funds anytime soon (and thank gd for that). No matter how you look at it though, to say that dance is popular and thriving and mainstream would be to overstate the case. This constant struggle has bred frustration for most. When TV took dance and made it, uh, TV, the dance world enjoyed a wave of excitement (counterbalanced by a good share of criticism, yes) and long overdue recognition. Underdogs had found their day, and most importantly, validation came from TV dance shows’ high ratings. We exist! We’re dancers. “Like the ones you see on TV”, now Sally in Brooklyn could tell uncle Bob in Alabama. Those shows sell the flashy, big movements. Even the emoting (if you were about to point out that there is “so much emotion” going on in those routines), is contrived. It’s television. Anything on television becomes television. Unless you are simply broadcasting a live performance, the formatting, camera work, editing, time frame, intensity of participants, drama-perpetuating competitors, judging, and CERTAINLY the way audiences experience the whole process - are all made for TV. Fast forward a decade into the existence of these shows and you end up exactly with what we now have in our hands: pseudo validation through that which dance is NOT. Is there an element of athleticism in dance? Absolutely! Is it a sport? No. There’s an element of art in soccer, but you don’t see soccer players running about social media claiming it to be an art form. They don’t need to, they’re content being themselves, dribbling all the way to the bank. The big stuff that people cheer for on those TV shows has us all going in the direction of what our bodies can do, instead of what our souls are expressing. It’s a fast HOV lane to confusion and misunderstanding, and the dance community is doing its erroneous self-labeling right in front of everyone in the world. There’s a place where people do move their bodies in crazy contorted ways, and jump higher than robins can fly, and that’s called gymnastics. A recognized olympic sport. Wonderful and exciting, I’d like to add. Dance exists where it's hardest to lie, in the human body. Dancers move like they really are, for they couldn’t do anything other if they tried. Like one’s voice, one’s inflection, one’s accent, you are what you are and you dance through the home in which you live (out) your experiences, your human body. Kinetic energy is created and shared when people dance onstage in front of an audience, and something inexplicable happens. It’s beauty, it’s magic, it’s some other trite word that won’t convey what it’s like to walk out of a live dance performance. Sure there’s technique and preparation and high legs and multiple turns and fly-across-the-stage jumps. The best dance shows leave you unable to explain what you just experienced, even if you have had training of some kind. The best dance shows communicate directly to your heart not your head, and the details, the littlest things are the ones you’re likely to remember the most. Like that time Sidra Bell choreographed a dancer’s index finger. Like that time Camille A. Brown added that heavy breathing when her dancer was about to hit the floor. Like that walk across the stage Desmond Richardson took in the middle of a Complexions premiere. Like that Pina Bausch's touching of the wall in Cafe Müller. Like the horizontal line formed by all of his dancers way upstage in Trey McIntyre’s Mercury Half-Life. I once heard someone say that books don’t change people’s lives, sentences do. It really is in the details, all that we instinctively know. So please. Let athletes compete and win. Let TV do what it will. Let us love dance as it is. Let us do what we do, without this desperate need for constant validation from the world. We’ve been doing this for centuries. Dance is an art form. An athletic art form, no doubt, but a way of doing art. Let’s bring it back to the stage, make dances and fall in love with them, make dances and wallow in misery when they don’t work out the way we intended. Let us keep moving forward, twirling and jumping and legging and simply walking our way into people’s hearts. And I will always think Misty is tremendous onstage, dancing Twyla’s Bach Partita. Ms. Copeland’s heart is ever more beautiful that way.

Yeah! I was also much bitter confused by reading this article that not seems to be a sport, or art work and it is also not any kind of dance. I search for the reason of this term on different websites and also find it on Facebook, but find not even a satisfactory answer about this article.

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I have seen this type of dance form. I like to watch it. It is very thrilling experience to watch Misty Copeland performance. It is really different from other types of dance performance and it has some similar characteristics of sports also.

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